Content selection

ABSTRACT

One or more systems and/or techniques for generating a content item from content within a content area are described herein. A first boundary and a second boundary may be defined for a content area based upon a first user input and a second user input, such as swipe gestures. A content item may be generated based upon content within the content area. In an example, a beginning boundary designator may be displayed for the first boundary and an ending boundary designator may be displayed for the second boundary in response to one or more swipe gestures of a user interface. In an example, the content item may be stitched to a second content item to create a stitched content item.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to and is a continuation of U.S.application Ser. No. 14/578,268, filed on Dec. 19, 2014, entitled“CONTENT SELECTION”, which is incorporated herein.

BACKGROUND

Many computing environments may provide screen capture functionalitythat may be used by users to capture content that is currently displayedthrough a user interface. In an example, a user may perform a screencapture of an internet browser interface to create an image depictingall of the visible content displayed through the internet browserinterface. In another example, the user may perform a screen capture ona mobile device to create an image depicting all of the visible contentdisplayed on a screen of the mobile device. Unfortunately, screencapture functionality may capture whatever content is currentlydisplayed and does not provide the user with fine grain control overwhat content to capture. Thus, an image created by a scene capturefunctionality may comprise additional content that the user may notdesire, which may result in wasted storage resources and/orcomputational resources otherwise used to store and process theundesired content within the image. Storing, editing, and/or sharingsuch screen captured images may waste storage resources, processingresources, and/or bandwidth, which may be exacerbated for mobiledevices.

SUMMARY

In accordance with the present disclosure, one or more systems and/ormethods for generating a content item from content within a content areaare provided. In an example, a first boundary (e.g., a beginningboundary) may be defined for a content area based upon a first userinput (e.g., a first swipe gesture). In an example, a beginning boundarydesignator may be displayed for the first boundary (e.g., a first dashline displayed through a user interface corresponding to where the firstswipe gesture occurred). A second boundary (e.g., an ending boundary)may be defined for the content area based upon a second user input(e.g., a second swipe gesture). In an example, an ending boundarydesignator may be displayed for the second boundary (e.g., a second dashline displayed through the user interface corresponding to where thesecond swipe gesture occurred). In an example, one or more additionalboundaries may be defined for the content area (e.g., the user may drawa square or any other shape to define the first content area).

In an example, a content item may be generated based upon content withinthe content area (e.g., a screen shot, an image, a file depicting thecontent; etc.). The content may comprise chat conversation content, textmessage content, email content, image content, document content, mobileapp interface content, and/or webpage content. In an example, thecontent item may comprise an image depicting a first portion, but not asecond portion, of a user interface displayed through a mobile devicebased upon the first portion, but not the second portion being withinthe first content area (e.g., the content item may comprise an imagefile depicting a screen shot of merely a top portion of a vacation photodisplayed through a social network interface).

In an example, user input may be used to define a second content area(e.g., a bottom portion of the vacation photo). A second content itemmay be generated based upon second content within the second contentarea. The content item (e.g., depicting the top portion of the vacationphoto) may be stitched to the second content item (e.g., depicting thebottom portion of the vacation photo) to create a stitched content item.The stitching may comprise blending a first portion of the content itemwith a second portion of the second content item. In an example, thecontent area may comprise content from a first content source and thesecond content area may comprise second content from the first contentsource (e.g., portions of the vacation photo). In another example, thecontent area may comprise content from the first content source (e.g.,the top portion of the vacation photo) and the second content area maycomprise second content from a second content source (e.g., a sentencewithin a vacation email that is stitched together with the top portionof the vacation photo to create the stitched content item).

In an example, the user interface may display a display content itemuser interface element, a save content item user interface element, ashare content item user interface element, and/or a publish content itemuser interface element. The display content item user interface elementmay be used to display the content item on a display. The save contentitem user interface element may be used to save the content item as afile. The share content item user interface element may be used to sharethe content item with one or more users (e.g., via text message, instantmessage, email, etc.). The publish content item user interface elementmay be used to publish the first content item to a website, a socialnetwork, a microblog service, and/or a calendar.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

While the techniques presented herein may be embodied in alternativeforms, the particular embodiments illustrated in the drawings are only afew examples that are supplemental of the description provided herein.These embodiments are not to be interpreted in a limiting manner, suchas limiting the claims appended hereto.

FIG. 1 is an illustration of a scenario involving various examples ofnetworks that may connect servers and clients.

FIG. 2 is an illustration of a scenario involving an exemplaryconfiguration of a server that may utilize and/or implement at least aportion of the techniques presented herein.

FIG. 3 is an illustration of a scenario involving an exemplaryconfiguration of a client that may utilize and/or implement at least aportion of the techniques presented herein.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating an example method for generating acontent item from content within a content area.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating an example method for generating acontent item from content within a content area, wherein an image is acombination of one or more images.

FIG. 6A is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area.

FIG. 6B is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first boundary and a second boundary are defined.

FIG. 6C is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first content area is defined based upon a first boundary and a secondboundary.

FIG. 6D is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first content item is generated from a first content source.

FIG. 6E is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea third boundary is formed and a second content area is defined from afirst content source.

FIG. 6F is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea third content area is defined.

FIG. 6G is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first content item is aligned with a third content item.

FIG. 6H is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first content item is blended with a third content item to form afirst stitched content item.

FIG. 6I is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea fourth content item is generated from a second content source.

FIG. 6J is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first content item is aligned with a fourth content item.

FIG. 6K is a component block diagram illustrating an exemplary systemfor generating a content item from content within a content area, wherea first content item is blended with a fourth content item to form asecond stitched content item.

FIG. 7 is an illustration of a scenario featuring an exemplarynontransitory memory device in accordance with one or more of theprovisions set forth herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Subject matter will now be described more fully hereinafter withreference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, andwhich show, by way of illustration, specific example embodiments. Thisdescription is not intended as an extensive or detailed discussion ofknown concepts. Details that are known generally to those of ordinaryskill in the relevant art may have been omitted, or may be handled insummary fashion.

The following subject matter may be embodied in a variety of differentforms, such as methods, devices, components, and/or systems.Accordingly, this subject matter is not intended to be construed aslimited to any example embodiments set forth herein. Rather, exampleembodiments are provided merely to be illustrative. Such embodimentsmay, for example, take the form of hardware, software, firmware, or anycombination thereof.

1. Computing Scenario

The following provides a discussion of some types of computing scenariosin which the disclosed subject matter may be utilized and/orimplemented.

1.1. Networking

FIG. 1 is an interaction diagram of a scenario 100 illustrating aservice 102 provided by a set of servers 104 to a set of client devices110 via various types of networks. The servers 104 and/or client devices110 may be capable of transmitting, receiving, processing, and/orstoring many types of signals, such as in memory as physical memorystates.

The servers 104 of the service 102 may be internally connected via alocal area network 106 (LAN), such as a wired network where networkadapters on the respective servers 104 are interconnected via cables(e.g., coaxial and/or fiber optic cabling), and may be connected invarious topologies (e.g., buses, token rings, meshes, and/or trees). Theservers 104 may be interconnected directly, or through one or more othernetworking devices, such as routers, switches, and/or repeaters. Theservers 104 may utilize a variety of physical networking protocols(e.g., Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel) and/or logical networkingprotocols (e.g., variants of an Internet Protocol (IP), a TransmissionControl Protocol (TCP), and/or a User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The localarea network 106 may include, e.g., analog telephone lines, such as atwisted wire pair, a coaxial cable, full or fractional digital linesincluding T1, T2, T3, or T4 type lines, Integrated Services DigitalNetworks (ISDNs), Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs), wireless linksincluding satellite links, or other communication links or channels,such as may be known to those skilled in the art. The local area network106 may be organized according to one or more network architectures,such as server/client, peer-to-peer, and/or mesh architectures, and/or avariety of roles, such as administrative servers, authenticationservers, security monitor servers, data stores for objects such as filesand databases, business logic servers, time synchronization servers,and/or front-end servers providing a user-facing interface for theservice 102.

Likewise, the local area network 106 may comprise one or moresub-networks, such as may employ differing architectures, may becompliant or compatible with differing protocols, and/or mayinteroperate within the local area network 106. Additionally, a varietyof local area networks 106 may be interconnected; e.g., a router mayprovide a link between otherwise separate and independent local areanetworks 106.

In the scenario 100 of FIG. 1, the local area network 106 of the service102 is connected to a wide area network 108 (WAN) that allows theservice 102 to exchange data with other services 102 and/or clientdevices 110. The wide area network 108 may encompass variouscombinations of devices with varying levels of distribution andexposure, such as a public wide-area network (e.g., the Internet) and/ora private network (e.g., a virtual private network (VPN) of adistributed enterprise).

In the scenario 100 of FIG. 1, the service 102 may be accessed via thewide area network 108 by a user 112 of one or more client devices 110,such as a portable media player (e.g., an electronic text reader, anaudio device, or a portable gaming, exercise, or navigation device); aportable communication device (e.g., a camera, a phone, a wearable or atext chatting device); a workstation; and/or a laptop form factorcomputer. The respective client devices 110 may communicate with theservice 102 via various connections to the wide area network 108. As afirst such example, one or more client devices 110 may comprise acellular communicator and may communicate with the service 102 byconnecting to the wide area network 108 via a wireless local areanetwork 106 provided by a cellular provider. As a second such example,one or more client devices 110 may communicate with the service 102 byconnecting to the wide area network 108 via a wireless local areanetwork 106 provided by a location such as the user's home or workplace(e.g., a Wi-Fi network or a Bluetooth personal area network). In thismanner, the servers 104 and the client devices 110 may communicate overvarious types of networks. Other types of networks that may be accessedby the servers 104 and/or client devices 110 include mass storage, suchas network attached storage (NAS), a storage area network (SAN), orother forms of computer or machine readable media.

1.2. Server Configuration

FIG. 2 presents a schematic architecture diagram 200 of a server 104that may utilize at least a portion of the techniques provided herein.Such a server 104 may vary widely in configuration or capabilities,alone or in conjunction with other servers, in order to provide aservice such as the service 102.

The server 104 may comprise one or more processors 210 that processinstructions. The one or more processors 210 may optionally include aplurality of cores; one or more coprocessors, such as a mathematicscoprocessor or an integrated graphical processing unit (GPU); and/or oneor more layers of local cache memory. The server 104 may comprise memory202 storing various forms of applications, such as an operating system204; one or more server applications 206, such as a hypertext transportprotocol (HTTP) server, a file transfer protocol (FTP) server, or asimple mail transport protocol (SMTP) server; and/or various forms ofdata, such as a database 208 or a file system. The server 104 maycomprise a variety of peripheral components, such as a wired and/orwireless network adapter 214 connectible to a local area network and/orwide area network; one or more storage components 216, such as a harddisk drive, a solid-state storage device (SSD), a flash memory device,and/or a magnetic and/or optical disk reader.

The server 104 may comprise a mainboard featuring one or morecommunication buses 212 that interconnect the processor 210, the memory202, and various peripherals, using a variety of bus technologies, suchas a variant of a serial or parallel AT Attachment (ATA) bus protocol; aUniform Serial Bus (USB) protocol; and/or Small Computer SystemInterface (SCI) bus protocol. In a multibus scenario, a communicationbus 212 may interconnect the server 104 with at least one other server.Other components that may optionally be included with the server 104(though not shown in the schematic diagram 200 of FIG. 2) include adisplay; a display adapter, such as a graphical processing unit (GPU);input peripherals, such as a keyboard and/or mouse; and a flash memorydevice that may store a basic input/output system (BIOS) routine thatfacilitates booting the server 104 to a state of readiness.

The server 104 may operate in various physical enclosures, such as adesktop or tower, and/or may be integrated with a display as an“all-in-one” device. The server 104 may be mounted horizontally and/orin a cabinet or rack, and/or may simply comprise an interconnected setof components. The server 104 may comprise a dedicated and/or sharedpower supply 218 that supplies and/or regulates power for the othercomponents. The server 104 may provide power to and/or receive powerfrom another server and/or other devices. The server 104 may comprise ashared and/or dedicated climate control unit 220 that regulates climateproperties, such as temperature, humidity, and/or airflow. Many suchservers 104 may be configured and/or adapted to utilize at least aportion of the techniques presented herein.

1.3. Client Device Configuration

FIG. 3 presents a schematic architecture diagram 300 of a client device110 whereupon at least a portion of the techniques presented herein maybe implemented. Such a client device 110 may vary widely inconfiguration or capabilities, in order to provide a variety offunctionality to a user such as the user 112. The client device 110 maybe provided in a variety of form factors, such as a desktop or towerworkstation; an “all-in-one” device integrated with a display 308; alaptop, tablet, convertible tablet, or palmtop device; a wearable devicemountable in a headset, eyeglass, earpiece, and/or wristwatch, and/orintegrated with an article of clothing; and/or a component of a piece offurniture, such as a tabletop, and/or of another device, such as avehicle or residence. The client device 110 may serve the user in avariety of roles, such as a workstation, kiosk, media player, gamingdevice, and/or appliance.

The client device 110 may comprise one or more processors 310 thatprocess instructions. The one or more processors 210 may optionallyinclude a plurality of cores; one or more coprocessors, such as amathematics coprocessor or an integrated graphical processing unit(GPU); and/or one or more layers of local cache memory. The clientdevice 110 may comprise memory 301 storing various forms ofapplications, such as an operating system 303; one or more userapplications 302, such as document applications, media applications,file and/or data access applications, communication applications such asweb browsers and/or email clients, utilities, and/or games; and/ordrivers for various peripherals. The client device 110 may comprise avariety of peripheral components, such as a wired and/or wirelessnetwork adapter 306 connectible to a local area network and/or wide areanetwork; one or more output components, such as a display 308 coupledwith a display adapter (optionally including a graphical processing unit(GPU)), a sound adapter coupled with a speaker, and/or a printer; inputdevices for receiving input from the user, such as a keyboard 310, amouse, a microphone, a camera, and/or a touch-sensitive component of thedisplay 308; and/or environmental sensors, such as a global positioningsystem (GPS) receiver 312 that detects the location, velocity, and/oracceleration of the client device 110, a compass, accelerometer, and/orgyroscope that detects a physical orientation of the client device 110.Other components that may optionally be included with the client device110 (though not shown in the schematic diagram 300 of FIG. 3) includeone or more storage components, such as a hard disk drive, a solid-statestorage device (SSD), a flash memory device, and/or a magnetic and/oroptical disk reader; and/or a flash memory device that may store a basicinput/output system (BIOS) routine that facilitates booting the clientdevice 110 to a state of readiness; and a climate control unit thatregulates climate properties, such as temperature, humidity, andairflow.

The client device 110 may comprise a mainboard featuring one or morecommunication buses 314 that interconnect the processor 310, the memory301, and various peripherals, using a variety of bus technologies, suchas a variant of a serial or parallel AT Attachment (ATA) bus protocol;the Uniform Serial Bus (USB) protocol; and/or the Small Computer SystemInterface (SCI) bus protocol. The client device 110 may comprise adedicated and/or shared power supply 318 that supplies and/or regulatespower for other components, and/or a battery 304 that stores power foruse while the client device 110 is not connected to a power source viathe power supply 318. The client device 110 may provide power to and/orreceive power from other client devices.

In some scenarios, as a user 112 interacts with a software applicationon a client device 110 (e.g., an instant messenger and/or electronicmail application), descriptive content in the form of signals or storedphysical states within memory (e.g., an email address, instant messengeridentifier, phone number, postal address, message content, date, and/ortime) may be identified. Descriptive content may be stored, typicallyalong with contextual content. For example, the source of a phone number(e.g., a communication received from another user via an instantmessenger application) may be stored as contextual content associatedwith the phone number. Contextual content, therefore, may identifycircumstances surrounding receipt of a phone number (e.g., the date ortime that the phone number was received), and may be associated withdescriptive content. Contextual content, may, for example, be used tosubsequently search for associated descriptive content. For example, asearch for phone numbers received from specific individuals, receivedvia an instant messenger application or at a given date or time, may beinitiated. The client device 110 may include one or more servers thatmay locally serve the client device 110 and/or other client devices ofthe user 112 and/or other individuals. For example, a locally installedwebserver may provide web content in response to locally submitted webrequests. Many such client devices 110 may be configured and/or adaptedto utilize at least a portion of the techniques presented herein.

2. Presented Techniques

One or more techniques and/or systems for generating a content item fromcontent within a content area are provided herein. In an example, a userviewing a content source (e.g., a text message, an email, an instantmessage, a document, a picture, a webpage, etc.) may desire to view,share, publish, and/or save a first portion of the content source, butnot a second portion of the content source (e.g., a first user may wishto send a first portion of a text message regarding plans for Saturdaynight to a second user, but not send a second portion of the textmessage regarding a personal information of the text message). Asprovided herein, a first boundary and/or a second boundary may bedefined for a content area of a content source based upon a first userinput and/or a second user input (e.g., swipe gestures performed on atouch screen display of a mobile device may be used to define boundariesof the content area). A first content item may be generated based uponcontent within the content area (e.g., a snapshot image of the Saturdaynight plans portion, but not the personal information portion, of thetext message). In an example, the first content item may be stitched toa second content item (e.g., a restaurant image from a website) to forma stitched content item. The stitched content item may comprise contentfrom the first content source (e.g., a text message) and content from asecond content source (e.g., the webpage).

As provided herein, a user may efficiently generate a content item for aspecific portion (e.g., a content area defined by a user) or portions ofcontent from one or more content sources. Generating the content itemfor a desired portion or portions of content may improve the ability ofthe user to view the desired portion or portions of content (e.g.,removed unwanted content and/or combine desired portions of content frommore than one content source, etc.) and/or reduce storage resources,processing resources, and/or bandwidth otherwise used to create, edit,store, and/or share content items that may comprise additional contentwith which the user is not interested. For example, a web browserinterface may display a social network webpage comprising a socialnetwork profile with 7 social network posts. Accordingly, the user maydefine content areas that include 2 of the social network posts, but not5 of the social network posts, for generating a content item depictingmerely the 2 social network posts, which may improve the efficiency ofviewing the desired portions (e.g., the 2 social network posts) and/orreduce the amount of data stored within the content item for improvestorage efficiency, processing resources for editing, and/or bandwidthfor sharing.

An embodiment for generating a content item from content within acontent area is illustrated by an exemplary method 400 of FIG. 4. At402, the method starts. At 404, a first boundary may be defined for afirst content area based upon a first user input. At 406, a secondboundary may be defined for the first content area based upon a seconduser input. In an example, a user may provide the first user input byperforming a first gesture, such as a first swipe gesture, and providethe second user input by performing a second gesture, such as a secondswipe gesture, on a display of a mobile device (e.g., a smartphone, atablet, a smartwatch, a personal digital assistant, etc.). The displayof the mobile device may comprise a touchscreen display (e.g., aresistive display, a capacitive display, an infrared display, an opticalimaging display, etc.). In an example, the first user input and/or thesecond user input may comprise a first swipe gesture and/or a secondswipe gesture on the touchscreen display of the mobile device (e.g., theuser may swipe a finger from a first side of the display to a secondside of the display to define the first boundary and/or the secondboundary). A swipe gesture may comprise a horizontal swipe gesture, avertical swipe gesture, a diagonal a circular swipe gesture, a freeformswipe gesture (e.g., the user may draw around a portion of a firstsocial network post, half of an image, a user interface element, and asecond social network post), a selection gesture (e.g., a gesture usedto select an image). In an example, a first horizontal swipe may be usedto demarcate a beginning boundary for the first content area and asecond horizontal swipe may be used to demarcate an ending boundary forthe first content area. In an example, the first content area may begreater than or less than a viewable display area of the display of themobile device (e.g., the user may scroll up or down on the touchscreendisplay to view all of the content within the first content area).

A third boundary and/or a fourth boundary may be defined for the firstcontent area based upon a third user input and/or a fourth user input.In an example, a third gesture and/or a fourth gesture may be performedon the touchscreen display of the mobile device to define the thirdboundary and/or the fourth boundary of the first content area (e.g., theuser may manually draw a first content area side boundary and/or asecond content area side boundary for the first content area). Inanother example, the third boundary and/or the fourth boundary (e.g.,the first content area side boundary and/or the second content area sideboundary) may be defined for the first content area without user input(e.g., automatically). For example, the third boundary and/or the fourthboundary may be defined based upon a location of the first boundary andthe second boundary relative to the first side of the touchscreendisplay and/or the second side of the touchscreen display (e.g., theboundaries may be used to bound the first content area within a singlecontained area).

In an example, the user inputs may be provided consecutively and/orcontemporaneously (e.g., the user may define one or more boundaries of asquare shaped content area, a rectangle shaped content area, a circularshaped content area, etc. while remaining in continuous contact with thetouchscreen display). In an example, the first boundary may be definedin response to a first directional change gesture and/or a seconddirectional change gesture (e.g., drawing a corner, a bend, a curve,etc. of a content area). For example, the first directional changegesture and/or the second directional change gesture may be configuredto define a start point and/or and endpoint for a first boundary (e.g.,the first boundary may be defined as a first line extending between afirst corner directional change gesture and a second corner directionalchange gesture) when the first user input and the second user input areprovided consecutively.

In an example, the first content area may correspond to a user interfacedisplayed on the mobile device. The user interface may be configured todisplay a beginning boundary designator and/or an ending boundarydesignator for the first boundary and/or the second boundary of thefirst content area to the user. The beginning boundary designator and/orthe ending boundary designator may comprise at least one of a line(e.g., straight line, squiggly line, zigzag line, bold line, etc.) or adashed line overlaid on the user interface. The beginning boundarydesignator and/or the ending boundary designator may be configured toprovide the user with a visual representation of the boundaries definingthe first content area. For example, a red line beginning boundarydesignator may be displayed on the user interface in response to a firsthorizontal swipe gesture used to demarcate the beginning boundary of thefirst content area.

At 408, a first content item may be generated based upon first contentwithin the first content area. The first content may comprise at leastone of text message content, chat conversation content, email content,image content, document content, mobile app interface content, and/orwebpage content from a first content source. In an example, the firstcontent may comprise embedded content, such as source code data (e.g.,source code data for embedded pictures, microblog entries, videos,etc.), location data (e.g., global positioning data), hyperlink data(e.g., URL data linking to a website), etc. from the first contentwithin the first content area. The first content source may comprise atext message (e.g., a short message service (SMS) message, a multimediamessaging service (MMS) message, etc.), a chat conversation (e.g., aninstant message, a social network message, etc.), an email, an image(e.g., a joint photographic experts group (JPEG), a graphics interchangeformat (GIF), a raw image format (RAW), a tagged image file format(TIFF), a computer graphics metafile, etc.), a document (e.g., aportable document format (PDF), a spread sheet, a word processingdocument, etc.), a mobile app interface (e.g., a weather app, a stockapp, a sports score app, banking app, a videogame app, etc.), and/orwebpage.

The generating of the first content item may comprise generating a firstimage (e.g., a snapshot file). The first image may be generated as ascreen capture of the first content within the user interface. In anexample, the first image may be configured to include embedded content(e.g., active hyperlinks, video source code, etc.). In an example,generating the first image may comprise extracting a first set ofdisplay data (e.g., pixel data, source code data, location data,hyperlink data, etc.) for the first content within the first contentarea. The first set of display data may comprise pixel size data, pixellocation data (e.g., coordinates for pixels relative to the displayand/or to other pixels), pixel type data (e.g., undefined pixel formats,indexed pixel format, etc.), pixel color data (e.g., RGB color value,grey scale color value, monochrome color value, etc.), bits per pixeldata, etc. In an example, the first set of display data may be extractedfrom a frame buffer (e.g., a buffer containing image data for an imagecurrently being displayed and/or for an image recently displayed, suchas on the user interface, etc.). The first set of display data may bestored in a first content area buffer. The first set of display datastored in the first content area buffer may be processed to obtain thefirst image. In an example, the first set of display data may beprocessed based upon a user preference, such as image format (e.g.,JPEG, TIFF, etc.), file size, image orientation (e.g., landscape,portrait, etc.), an embedded content preference (e.g., whether or not toinclude active hyperlinks, source code data, etc.).

The generating of the first content item may comprise scaling the firstimage. The first image may be scaled (e.g., subsampled, upsampled, etc.)based upon a first display property (e.g., length, width, and/or heightof the viewable display area, resolution of the display, etc.) of thedisplay. For example, when the first content area is smaller than theviewable display area, the first image may be upsampled so that thefirst image may fit within the viewable display area. The upsampling maycomprise the interpolation of additional pixels into the first image toimprove the quality of the first image. In another example, when thefirst content area is larger than viewable display area, the first imagemay be subsampled so that the first image may fit within the viewabledisplay area (e.g., a group of pixels and/or pixel values may bereplaced by a smaller number of pixels and/or pixel values).

In an example, one or more additional boundaries for a second contentarea may be defined based upon one or more user inputs (e.g., a swipegesture, etc.). A second content item may be generated based upon secondcontent (e.g., instant message content) within the second content area.In an example, the first content and the second content may be from afirst content source (e.g., the first content may be from a first partof an instant message conversation and the second content may be from asecond part of the same instant message conversation). In anotherexample, the first content may be from a first content source and thesecond content may be from a second content source (e.g., the firstcontent may be from a text message conversation and the second contentmay be from a shopping application).

In an example, the first content item may be stitched to the secondcontent item to create a first stitched content item. The stitching maycomprise aligning at least one boundary of the first content item withat least one boundary of the second content item. For example, a firstcontent area side boundary of the first content item may be aligned witha second content area side boundary of the second content item (e.g.,the content items may be aligned in a side-by-side orientation). Inanother example, a first content item lower boundary of the firstcontent item may be aligned with the second content item upper boundaryof the second content item (e.g., the content items may be aligned in astacked orientation).

In an example, the stitching may comprise blending a first portion ofthe first content item with a second portion of the second content itemto create the first stitched content item. The blending may comprisemodifying the display data (e.g., pixel data) for the first portionand/or the second portion to reduce a transition between the firstcontent item and the second content item (e.g., make the first stitchedcontent item appear as a homogenous image when displayed). In anexample, a first portion of the first content item proximate the firstcontent item lower boundary may be blended with the a second portion ofthe second content item proximate the second content item upper boundaryto create the first stitched content item. In an example, the firststitched content item may be scaled based upon a display property of themobile device.

In an example, the user interface may be configured to display at leastone of a censor content item user interface element, a save content itemuser interface element, a share content item user interface element, ora publish content item user interface element on the display of themobile device. In an example, at least one of the elements is displayedin response to the generation of a content item.

In an example, the censor content item user interface element may bedisplayed. The censor content item user interface element may be used tocensor a portion of content within the first content item (e.g., censorpersonal information from a bank statement content item, censor a phonenumber from a text message content item, etc.). In an example, thecensor content item user interface element may cause the portion ofcontent to be indiscernible (e.g., blacked out, blurred, pixelated,etc.).

In an example, the save content item user interface element may bedisplayed. The save content item user interface element may be used tosave the first content item, the second content item, and/or the firststitched content item as a file (e.g., JPEG, TIFF, GIFF, PDF, etc.). Forexample, the first content item may be saved to a storage component(e.g., a hard drive, a local network, a cloud storage drive, aclipboard, a camera roll, etc.). The first content item may be saved inresponse to the user selecting the save content item user interfaceelement from the user interface.

In an example, the share content item user interface element may bedisplayed. The share content item user interface element may be used toshare the first content item with one or more users. The first contentitem may be shared in response to the user selecting the share contentitem user interface element from the user interface. The first contentitem may be shared through at least one of a text message, an email, asocial network post, or an instant message.

In an example, the publish content item user interface element may bedisplayed. The publish content item user interface element may be usedto publish the first content item to at least one of a website, a socialnetwork, a microblog service, or a calendar. The first content item maybe published in response to the user selecting the publish content itemuser interface element from the user interface.

At 410, the method ends.

An embodiment for generating a content item from content within acontent area is illustrated by an exemplary method 500 of FIG. 5. At502, the method starts. At 504, a beginning boundary may be defined fora first content area. The beginning boundary may be defined based upon afirst swipe gesture of a user interface. The user interface may comprisea first content and/or a second content (e.g., a first portion of anemail conversation and a second portion of an email conversation). At506, an ending boundary may be defined for the first content area. Theending boundary may be defined based upon a second swipe gesture of theuser interface. In an example, a horizontal beginning boundarydesignator and/or a horizontal ending boundary designator may bedisplayed for the beginning boundary and/or the ending boundary basedupon the swipe gestures (e.g., horizontal swipe gestures across an emailuser interface). At 508, a first content item may be generated basedupon the first content area. The first content item may comprise firstcontent (e.g., the first portion of the email conversation) but notsecond content (e.g., the second portion of the email conversation)based upon the first content, but not the second content, being withinthe first content area.

In an example, the user interface may be configured to display a displaycontent item user interface element, a save content item user interfaceelement, a share content item user interface element, a publish contentitem user interface element, and/or a censor content item user interfaceelement. In an example, the user interface elements may be used to savethe first content item as a file, share the first content item with oneor more users, publish the first content item, display the first contentitem on the display of the mobile device, and/or censor content withinthe first content item.

At 510, the method ends.

FIG. 6A illustrates an example of a system 600 for generating a contentitem from content within a content area. The system 600 may comprise acontent item generation component 602 and/or a content interactioncomponent 604. In an example, the content item generation component 602may be configured to define a first boundary and/or a second boundaryfor a first content area based upon a first user input and/or a seconduser input (e.g., a swipe gesture). The content generation component 602may be configured to generate a first content item based upon firstcontent within the first content area. In an example, the content itemgeneration component 602 may be configured to stitch the first contentitem to a second content item (e.g., defined by boundaries correspondingto user input, such as a user drawing a freeform shape around a portionof a webpage) to generate a first stitched content item.

The content interaction component 604 may be configured display adisplay content item user interface element 606, a save content itemuser interface element 608, a share content item user interface element610, a publish content item user interface element 612 and/or a censorcontent item user interface element 614. In an example, responsive tothe selection of at least one of the content item user interfaceelements 606-614, the content interaction component 604 may display,save, share, censor, and/or publish the first content item and/or thefirst stitched content item.

FIGS. 6B-6H illustrate examples of the system 600 generating contentitems associated with a mobile device 620. A first content source, suchas a text message content source 621, may be displayed on a display 622of the mobile device 620 (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet, etc.), asillustrated in FIG. 6B. The text message content source 621 may comprisetext message content 624 a-624 g. The content item generation component602 may be configured to define a first boundary 626 and/or a secondboundary 628 in response to a first gesture and/or a second gestureperformed by a user 112 on the display 622 (e.g., a touchscreendisplay). In an example, the user 112 may defined boundaries for a firstportion 625 of text message content (e.g., text message content 624b-624 e) by performing the first gesture (e.g., a swipe gesture, etc.)above the first portion 625 (e.g., defining the first boundary 626) andperforming the second gesture below the first portion 625 (e.g.,defining the second boundary 628).

Referring to FIG. 6C, the content item generation component 602 maydelineate a first content area 630 (represented by the dotted outline)based upon the first boundary 626 and the second boundary 628. In anexample, a first side 632 and a second side 634 of the display 622 maybe configured as side boundaries (e.g., first content item sideboundary) for delineating the first content area 630. The first contentarea 630 may comprise the first portion 625 of text message content(e.g., text message content 624 b-624 e), but not a second portion 627of text message content (e.g., 624 a) and/or a third portion 629 of textmessage content (e.g., text message content 624 f-624 g).

Referring to FIG. 6D, the content item generation component 602 may beconfigured to generate a first content item 636 based upon the textmessage content 624 b-624 e (e.g., the first portion 625) within thefirst content area 630. The first content area 630 may comprise a firstset of display data 638 for the text message content 624 b-624 e. Thecontent item generation component 602 may be configured to extract thefirst set of display data 638 for the first content area 630. In anexample, the content item generation component 602 may generate thefirst content item 636 based upon the first set of display data 638(e.g., generate a snapshot image of the text message content 624 b-624e).

The content interaction component 604 may be configured to display thedisplay content item user interface element 606, the save content itemuser interface element 608, the share content item user interfaceelement 610, the publish content item user interface element 612 and/orthe censor content item user interface element 614 in response to thefirst content item 636 being generated. In an example, the displaycontent item user interface element 606 may be used to display the firstcontent item 636 on the display 622. In an example, the save contentitem user interface element 608 may be used to save the first contentitem 636 as a file 682. In an example, the share content item userinterface element 610 may be used to share the first content item 636with one or more users 684 (e.g., via text message, instant message,email, etc.). In an example, the publish content item user interfaceelement 612 may be used to publish the first content item 636 to awebsite 686. In an example, the censor content item user interfaceelement 614 may be used to censor 689 the first content item 636 (e.g.,blackout, blur, etc. a part of the first content item) to create acensored content item 687.

Referring to FIG. 6E, a third boundary 642 (e.g., a content areasegregation boundary) may be defined by the content item generationcomponent 602 in response to a third gesture performed by the user 112on the display 622. The content item generation component 602 maydelineate a second content area 644 (represented by the dotted line) forthe text message content source 621 based on the first boundary 626, thesecond boundary 628, and the third boundary 642. In an example, thethird boundary 642 may be used to select a sender's text message content(e.g., text message content 624 b and text message content 624 d) butnot a receiver's text messages content (e.g., text message content 624 cand text message content 624 e) as the second content area 644. The user112 may perform the third gesture, such as a vertical swipe down themiddle of the display 622 followed by a horizontal swipe towards thefirst side 632 to delineate the second content area 644 (e.g., thehorizontal swipe may indicate whether the user 112 wants the contentitem to include the sender's text message content or the receivers textmessage content). A second content item 648 may be generated based uponthe text message content 624 b and 624 d within the second content area644.

Referring to FIG. 6F, a fourth boundary 650 and/or a fifth boundary 652may be defined for the text message content source 621 in response to afourth gesture and/or a fifth gesture performed by the user 112 on thedisplay 622. The content item generation component 602 may delineate athird content area 654 based upon the fourth boundary 650 and the fifthboundary 652. The third content area 654 may comprise text messagecontent 624 h-624 j. In an example, the first content area 630 and thethird content area 654 are spaced apart, such that at least some of thefirst content area 630 extends beyond a viewable display area 655 of thedisplay 622 (e.g., the user 112 may have to scroll up on the display 622in order to view the entirety of the first content area 630). Thecontent item generation component 602 may be configured to generate athird content item 656 based upon the text message content 624 h-624 jwithin the third content area 654.

Referring to FIGS. 6G-6H, the content item generation component 602 maybe configured to stitch the first content item 636 to the third contentitem 656 to generate a first stitched content item 670. The stitchingmay comprise an aligning and/or a blending the first content item 636 tothe third content item 656. Referring to FIG. 6G, the content itemgeneration component 602 may be configured to align the first contentitem 636 with the third content item 656. In an example, a first contentitem lower boundary 639 of the first content item 636 may be alignedwith a third content item upper boundary 664 of the third content item656.

Referring to FIG. 6H, the content item generation component 602 may beconfigured to blend a first portion 671 of the first content item 636with a second portion 673 of the third content item 656 to generate thefirst stitched content item 670. In an example, the blending may reducea transition between the first content item 636 and the third contentitem 656.

The content item generation component 602 may be configured to scale atleast one of the first content item 636, the third content item 656,and/or the first stitched content item 670. In an example, the firstcontent item 636 and the third content item 656 may be scaled to fitwithin the viewable display area 655. In another example, after thefirst content items 636 is stitched to the third content item 656 togenerate the first stitched content item 670, the first stitched contentitem 670 may be scaled to fit within the viewable display area 655.

Referring to FIGS. 6I-6K, the content item generation component 602 maybe configured to generate a second stitched content item 682 usingcontent from a first content source and content from a second contentsource. Referring to FIG. 6I, a sixth boundary 672 and/or a seventhboundary 674 may be defined for the email content source 676. Thecontent item generation component 602 may delineate a fourth contentarea 678 based upon the sixth boundary 672 and the seventh boundary 674.The content item generation component 602 may generate a fourth contentitem 680 (not illustrated in FIG. 6I) based upon email content 681within the fourth content area 678. In an example, the email content 681may comprise hyperlink data 688.

In an example, the first content item 636 from the text message contentsource 621 may be stitched to a fourth content item 680 from the emailcontent source 676 to form the second stitched content item 682. Thestitching may comprise an aligning and/or a blending of the firstcontent item 636 to the fourth content item 680, as illustrated in FIGS.6J-6K. Referring to FIG. 6K, the hyperlink data 688 may be configured toremain active (e.g., able to be accessed) in the second stitched contentitem 682. In an example, at least one of the first content item 636, thefourth content item 680, or the second stitched content item 682 may bescaled based upon a display property.

FIG. 7 is an illustration of a scenario 700 involving an exemplarynontransitory memory device 702. The nontransitory memory device 702 maycomprise instructions that when executed perform at least some of theprovisions herein (e.g., embodiment 714). The nontransitory memorydevice may comprise a memory semiconductor (e.g., a semiconductorutilizing static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random accessmemory (DRAM), and/or synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM)technologies), a platter of a hard disk drive, a flash memory device, ora magnetic or optical disc (such as a CD, DVD, or floppy disk). Theexemplary nontransitory memory device 702 stores computer-readable data704 that, when subjected to reading 706 by a reader 710 of a device 708(e.g., a read head of a hard disk drive, or a read operation invoked ona solid-state storage device), express processor-executable instructions712. In an example, the processor-executable instructions, when executedon a processor 716 of the device 708, are configured to perform amethod, such as at least some of the exemplary method 400 of FIG. 4and/or method 500 of FIG. 5, for example. In an example, theprocessor-executable instructions, when executed on the processor 716 ofthe device 708, are configured to implement a system, such as at leastsome of system 600 of FIGS. 6A-6K, for example.

3. Usage of Terms

As used in this application, “component,” “module,” “system,”“interface,” and/or the like are generally intended to refer to acomputer-related entity, either hardware, a combination of hardware andsoftware, software, or software in execution. For example, a componentmay be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, aprocessor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program,and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application runningon a controller and the controller may be a component. One or morecomponents may reside within a process and/or thread of execution and acomponent may be localized on one computer and/or distributed betweentwo or more computers.

Unless specified otherwise, “first,” “second,” and/or the like are notintended to imply a temporal aspect, a spatial aspect, an ordering, etc.Rather, such terms are merely used as identifiers, names, etc. forfeatures, elements, items, etc. For example, a first object and a secondobject generally correspond to object A and object B or two different ortwo identical objects or the same object.

Moreover, “exemplary” is used herein to mean serving as an example,instance, illustration, etc., and not necessarily as advantageous. Asused herein, “or” is intended to mean an inclusive “or” rather than anexclusive “or”. In addition, “a” and “an” as used in this applicationare generally be construed to mean “one or more” unless specifiedotherwise or clear from context to be directed to a singular form. Also,at least one of A and B and/or the like generally means A or B or both Aand B. Furthermore, to the extent that “includes”, “having”, “has”,“with”, and/or variants thereof are used in either the detaileddescription or the claims, such terms are intended to be inclusive in amanner similar to the term “comprising”.

Although the subject matter has been described in language specific tostructural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understoodthat the subject matter defined in the appended claims is notnecessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above.Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed asexample forms of implementing at least some of the claims.

Furthermore, the claimed subject matter may be implemented as a method,apparatus, or article of manufacture using standard programming and/orengineering techniques to produce software, firmware, hardware, or anycombination thereof to control a computer to implement the disclosedsubject matter. The term “article of manufacture” as used herein isintended to encompass a computer program accessible from anycomputer-readable device, carrier, or media. Of course, manymodifications may be made to this configuration without departing fromthe scope or spirit of the claimed subject matter.

Various operations of embodiments are provided herein. In an embodiment,one or more of the operations described may constitute computer readableinstructions stored on one or more computer readable media, which ifexecuted by a computing device, will cause the computing device toperform the operations described. The order in which some or all of theoperations are described should not be construed as to imply that theseoperations are necessarily order dependent. Alternative ordering will beappreciated by one skilled in the art having the benefit of thisdescription. Further, it will be understood that not all operations arenecessarily present in each embodiment provided herein. Also, it will beunderstood that not all operations are necessary in some embodiments.

Also, although the disclosure has been shown and described with respectto one or more implementations, equivalent alterations and modificationswill occur to others skilled in the art based upon a reading andunderstanding of this specification and the annexed drawings. Thedisclosure includes all such modifications and alterations and islimited only by the scope of the following claims. In particular regardto the various functions performed by the above described components(e.g., elements, resources, etc.), the terms used to describe suchcomponents are intended to correspond, unless otherwise indicated, toany component which performs the specified function of the describedcomponent (e.g., that is functionally equivalent), even though notstructurally equivalent to the disclosed structure. In addition, while aparticular feature of the disclosure may have been disclosed withrespect to only one of several implementations, such feature may becombined with one or more other features of the other implementations asmay be desired and advantageous for any given or particular application.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A method, comprising: defining a first boundary for a content area based upon a first swipe gesture of a user interface, the user interface displaying first content, second content, third content and fourth content but not fifth content at a first time; defining a second boundary for the content area based upon a second swipe gesture of the user interface, the second swipe gesture substantially parallel to the first swipe gesture, the first content comprised in the content area between the first boundary and the second boundary, the fourth content on a different side of the second boundary than the first content; defining a third boundary for a second content area based upon a third user input comprising a third swipe gesture substantially parallel to at least one of the first swipe gesture or the second swipe gesture, the first boundary between the third boundary and the second boundary, the second content comprised in the second content area on a first side of the third boundary and between the third boundary and the first boundary, the third content comprised in a third content area on a second side of the third boundary; and displaying a stitched content item comprising the first content, the third content and the fifth content, but not the second content and the fourth content, based upon a stitching of the content area comprising the first content to the third content area comprising the third content and the fifth content, wherein the stitched content item is generated based upon a scaling, via upsampling, of at least one of the first content or the third content to fill at least a portion of a display area on which the fourth content was displayed.
 2. The method of claim 1, the stitched content item generated by: generating a first image as a screen capture of at least one of the first content, the third content or the fifth content.
 3. The method of claim 2, comprising: scaling the first image based upon a first display property of a mobile device.
 4. The method of claim 2, comprising: interpolating additional pixels into the first image to improve the quality of the first image.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the scaling comprises scaling, via upsampling, of the first content to fill at least the portion of the display area on which the fourth content was displayed at the first time.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the scaling comprises scaling, via upsampling, of the third content to fill at least the portion of the display area on which the fourth content was displayed at the first time.
 7. The method of claim 1, comprising: displaying a share content item user interface element.
 8. The method of claim 1, comprising: displaying a censor content item user interface element.
 9. The method of claim 1, comprising: extracting, for the first content, a first set of display data comprising at least one of source code data for the first content, location data for the first content or hyperlink data for the first content.
 10. The method of claim 8, comprising: responsive to receiving a selection of the censor content item user interface element, censoring a portion of content within the display area.
 11. The method of claim 1, the stitching comprising aligning at least one boundary of the content area with at least one boundary of the third content area.
 12. The method of claim 1, at least one of the first content, the second content, the third content, the fourth content or the fifth content comprising chat conversation content.
 13. The method of claim 1, the first swipe gesture and the second swipe gesture on a mobile device.
 14. The method of claim 1, at least one of the first content, the second content, the third content, the fourth content or the fifth content comprising text message content.
 15. The method of claim 1, at least one of the first content, the second content, the third content, the fourth content or the fifth content comprising email content.
 16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which when executed perform a method, comprising: defining a beginning boundary for a content area based upon a first swipe gesture of a user interface, the user interface displaying first content, second content, third content and fourth content but not fifth content at a first time; defining an ending boundary for the content area based upon a second swipe gesture of the user interface, the second swipe gesture substantially parallel to the first swipe gesture, the first content comprised in the content area between the beginning boundary and the ending boundary, the fourth content on a different side of the ending boundary than the first content; defining a third boundary for a second content area based upon a third user input comprising a third swipe gesture substantially parallel to at least one of the first swipe gesture or the second swipe gesture, the beginning boundary between the third boundary and the ending boundary, the second content comprised in the second content area on a first side of the third boundary and between the third boundary and the beginning boundary, the third content comprised in a third content area on a second side of the third boundary; and displaying, at a second time after the first time, a stitched content item comprising the first content, the third content and the fifth content that was not displayed at the first time, but not the second content that was displayed at the first time and the fourth content that was displayed at the first time, based upon a stitching of the content area comprising the first content to the third content area comprising the third content and the fifth content, wherein the stitched content item is generated based upon a scaling, via upsampling, of at least one of the first content or the third content to fill at least a portion of a display area on which the fourth content was displayed at the first time.
 17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the scaling comprises scaling, via upsampling, of the first content to fill at least the portion of the display area on which the fourth content was displayed at the first time.
 18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the scaling comprises scaling, via upsampling, of the third content to fill at least the portion of the display area on which the fourth content was displayed at the first time.
 19. A system, comprising: a processor; and memory comprising processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to implement a content item generation component configured to: define a first boundary for a content area based upon a first swipe gesture of a user interface, the user interface displaying first content, second content, third content and fourth content but not fifth content at a first time; define a second boundary for the content area based upon a second swipe gesture of the user interface, the second swipe gesture substantially parallel to the first swipe gesture, the first content comprised in the content area between the first boundary and the second boundary, the fourth content on a different side of the second boundary than the first content; define a third boundary for a second content area based upon a third user input comprising a third swipe gesture substantially parallel to at least one of the first swipe gesture or the second swipe gesture, the first boundary between the third boundary and the second boundary, the second content comprised in the second content area on a first side of the third boundary and between the third boundary and the first boundary, the third content comprised in a third content area on a second side of the third boundary; and display a stitched content item comprising the first content, the third content and the fifth content, but not the second content and the fourth content, based upon a stitching of the content area comprising the first content to the third content area comprising the third content and the fifth content, wherein the stitched content item is generated based upon a scaling, via upsampling, of at least one of the first content or the third content to fill at least a portion of a display area on which the fourth content was displayed.
 20. The system of claim 19, comprising a content interaction component configured to: display a save content item user interface element used to save the stitched content item as a file. 